I would like to encourage the creation of guidelines that avoid highly controversial (abortion, Bush, immigration, gay marriage, Bush etc.). They are non-topical to fusion, and will quickly drop to a flame war. There are appropriate forums for those.

Zixinus wrote:I would like to encourage the creation of guidelines that avoid highly controversial (abortion, Bush, immigration, gay marriage, Bush etc.). They are non-topical to fusion, and will quickly drop to a flame war. There are appropriate forums for those.

You have a good point here. I'm a little wary of putting too many controls on the topics in the General forum — I'm hoping we can all act in a professional manner, and leave our opinions about Bush's gay marriage to waging war on aborted immigrants at the door.

In other forums, of course, none of that would be on topic. When I see an off-topic thread, I'll move it to the appropriate forum, and if it degenerates into flames, I can lock it to prevent further replies. Do you think that will suffice?

Evangelism is advocating/promoting something; for example, the "Apple evangelists" were an unofficial group of Apple enthusiasts who worked to promote Apple computers in a mostly Windows world. In a similar way, the forums in the Evangelical group are ones related to promoting and advocating Polywell fusion.